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17y ago
If GSM was not already broken, how do all of these products work? http://www.google.com/search?q=gsm+passive+intercept The point of the presentation is not that GSM has been broken; it's to make it so blatantly, obviously, publicly broken
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17y ago
Comparing Techcrunch to Google is a bit lopsided, don't you think? Operations for most websites is like vehicle maintenance for a pizza delivery company: essential for success, but hardly their "core competency". This is especially true if
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wrs
17y ago
Probably true, but irrelevant to the article, which is about how more effectively to teach Standard English by recognizing that some students start from a different dialect.
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wrs
17y ago
Now I'm guessing you haven't RTFA. The point of the exercise is to teach Standard English more effectively to people whose native language is AAVE, not to teach people AAVE.
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17y ago
I'm guessing your friend learned American English in an environment that recognized that his native language was something else (presumably a dialect of Spanish) and took that into account. Should native AAVE speakers not receive the same t
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17y ago
You must have a debug version of Flash installed. I'll probably turn that wacky display off for the next build. Or if you install regular Flash it will go away and the animation will be smoother, too. :)
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17y ago
Thank you! Yes, we did. The book is a PaperVision3D model and we do a little mesh animation to make the pages curl nicely.
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17y ago
It uses Flex for UI layout in the book reader. The book itself is plain Flash using PaperVision3D. (The rest of the site is HTML.)